HAL status

Ben Boeckel mathstuf at gmail.com
Sun Apr 18 19:55:13 UTC 2010


In article <1271556200.29034.1.camel at localhost> you wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 04:46 +0000, Ben Boeckel wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> With X no longer using HAL for device configuration, what the status of
>> completely replacing HAL? I know udev, upower, and udisks are destined
>> to replace it, but since I run a tight setup and HAL is not in the
>> "Minimal" install on the F-13 media, I was wondering when a setup
>> completely without HAL would be possible (upower currently depends on it
>> through pm-utils). Thanks.
> 
> We are tracking the progress towards hal removal here:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/HalRemoval

This is the result of `yum install pm-utils` on my machine:

=================================

---> Package pm-utils.i686 0:1.2.6.1-1.fc13 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: radeontool for package: pm-utils-1.2.6.1-1.fc13.i686
--> Processing Dependency: hal for package: pm-utils-1.2.6.1-1.fc13.i686
--> Processing Dependency: hdparm for package: pm-utils-1.2.6.1-1.fc13.i686
--> Processing Dependency: vbetool for package: pm-utils-1.2.6.1-1.fc13.i686

<snip more dep checks>

Installing:
 pm-utils       i686   1.2.6.1-1.fc13   fedora 110 k
Installing for dependencies:
 dmidecode      i686   1:2.10-1.39.fc12 fedora 64 k
 hal            i686   0.5.14-3.fc13    fedora 372 k
 hal-filesystem i686   0.5.14-3.fc13    fedora 31 k
 hal-info       noarch 20090716-3.fc12  fedora 51 k
 hal-libs       i686   0.5.14-3.fc13    fedora 66 k
 hdparm         i686   9.27-1.fc13      fedora 75 k
 radeontool     i686   1.5-6.fc12       fedora 9.2 k
 vbetool        i686   1.2.2-1.fc12     fedora 20 k

=================================

The wiki states that pm-utils is hal-free. Maybe the hard dep in the RPM needs
looked at?

--Ben


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